*               Today in Black History - April 29               *

1854 - Ashmun lnstitute, later Lincoln University, is founded in
        Oxford, Pennsylvania.  It will be "the first institution
        founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher
        education in the arts and sciences for youth of African
        descent."

1881 - Julian Francis Abele is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
        He will become an architect widely believed to have
        designed Philadelphia's Museum of Art and the Free
        Library, as well as major buildings on the Duke University
        campus.

1899 - Edward "Duke" Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, DC.
        He will form his first band in 1919, and move to New York
        City in 1922. His five-year tenure at the famed Cotton Club
        will garner him wide acclaim.  Scoring both his first
        musical and making his record-ing debut in 1924, Ellington
        will be known as the first conventional jazz composer,
        although he will also become renowned for his Sacred
        Concerts in the mid-1960's.  His most notable works include
        "Take the A Train," "Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated Ladies,"
        and "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good."

1922 - Parren James Mitchell is born in Baltimore, Maryland. In
        1971, he will become the first African American elected to
        Congress from the State of Maryland.

1934 - Otis Rush is born in Philadelphia, Mississippi.  He will
        become a blues musician and will help to shape Chicago's
        West Side blues sound.

1948 - Willi Smith is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  A noted
        designer, he will take his first job with Arnold Scaasi in
        New York City and form his own fashion label, Willi Wear
        Ltd., in 1976.  He will be a Coty Award winner in 1983 and
        will lead his company until his death from AIDS in 1987.

1967 - Mrs. Robert W. Clayton is elected president of the YWCA,
        the first African American president of the organization.

1983 - Harold Washington is sworn in as the first African American
        mayor of Chicago.

1992 - Rioting erupts in Los Angeles after a jury acquits four
        white policemen of charges related to the videotaped
        beating of African American motorist Rodney King.  The National
        Guard and federal troops are mobilized to deal with the
        rebellion, which will last several days and cost the lives of
        58 persons.  There are demonstrations and riots in other
        American cities.

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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," and independent research by the
        Information Man.
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